See Also: plasmon(medicine)
plasmon(dictionary)
surface plasmon resonance(medicine)

plasmon (iou)



plasmon noun. . E20.
[from PLASMA + -ON (arbitrary ending in sense 1).]
(Usu. Plasmon.) (Proprietary name for) an extract of soluble milk proteins. obsolete exc. Hist. E20.
Genetics. The totality of cytoplasmic or extranuclear genetic factors. M20.
Astronomy & Physics. = PLASMOID. M20.
Physics. The quantum or quasiparticle associated with a collective oscillation of charge density. M20.